The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville VIC 3050, Australia.
Genes Dev. 2010 Aug 1;24(15):1608-13. doi: 10.1101/gad.1940110.
Although tumor development requires impaired apoptosis, we describe a novel paradigm of apoptosis-dependent tumorigenesis. Because DNA damage triggers apoptosis through p53-mediated induction of BH3-only proteins Puma and Noxa, we explored their roles in gamma-radiation-induced thymic lymphomagenesis. Surprisingly, whereas Noxa loss accelerated it, Puma loss ablated tumorigenesis. Tumor suppression by Puma deficiency reflected its protection of leukocytes from gamma-irradiation-induced death, because their glucocorticoid-mediated decimation in Puma-deficient mice activated cycling of stem/progenitor cells and restored thymic lymphomagenesis. Our demonstration that cycles of cell attrition and repopulation by stem/progenitor cells can drive tumorigenesis has parallels in human cancers, such as therapy-induced malignancies.
虽然肿瘤的发展需要凋亡功能受损,但我们描述了一种新的依赖于凋亡的肿瘤发生模式。由于 DNA 损伤通过 p53 介导的 BH3 仅蛋白 Puma 和 Noxa 的诱导引发凋亡,我们研究了它们在γ射线诱导的胸腺淋巴瘤发生中的作用。令人惊讶的是,虽然 Noxa 的缺失加速了肿瘤的发生,但 Puma 的缺失则使肿瘤发生完全消除。Puma 缺失的肿瘤抑制作用反映了它对白细胞免受γ辐射诱导死亡的保护作用,因为在 Puma 缺陷小鼠中,糖皮质激素介导的白细胞耗竭激活了干细胞/祖细胞的循环,并恢复了胸腺淋巴瘤的发生。我们的研究表明,由干细胞/祖细胞的细胞损耗和再增殖循环可以驱动肿瘤发生,这与人类癌症(如治疗诱导的恶性肿瘤)存在相似性。